Pre-Rooted 5.0.5.1 ROM for the Amazon Fire TV 2 Released

A pre-rooted ROM of the new 5.0.5.1 software version for the 2nd-gen Fire TV has been released by rbox. You can find it here at the usual place. If you’re financially able, please consider donating to rbox to show him your appreciation for his continued work keeping all of us capable of updating our devices without losing root. You can install this new ROM regardles of what version is currently on your Fire TV 2. Be sure to also grab this MD5 file and include it with the ROM to ensure the ROM is not corrupted before flashing.

This pre-rooted version of 5.0.5.1 does disable FireStarter and FiredTV, just like the stock version. However, because you’re rooted, you can disable the app blacklist and re-enable either app by following this guide.

Rbox told me he had a chance to make progress on TWRP for the 1st-gen Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, as well as pre-rooted ROMs, so those are very much still in the works and should be released by early May at the latest.

Great news about the 1st gen and Fire Stick. The new update wouldn’t really benefit anyone rooted on 5.0.5 that uses FireStarter as the third party apps on the home screen would be irrelevant using Firestarter.

That is great news about the FireStick! I’ve had multiple brand new ones waiting for the day they could be rooted! Now they all sit with kingroot on v5.0.5 in their boxes until a prerooted rom arrives. rbox rbox he’s our man if he can’t do it no one can! Cheers to rbox for the latest prerooted Rom!!!

I am on pre-rooted 5.0.5 with TWRP version 3.0.0-4 of rbox.
Can I simply flash “FireTV 2 (sloane) Prerooted Stock Image 5.0.5.1_r1” via the TWRP I have? Will this update my TWRP version and FTV image as TWRP is included in this zip?

Or what would be the correct way to upgrade from pre-rooted 5.0.5 to 5.0.5.1?

Damn May for the FTV1 release wow, should have held off my donation until it’s been released :( since rooting my FTV1 my Netflix, Hulu and kodi freezes randomly where I have to press play again to start it. Very annoying.

Hello!, I have rooted my aftv2 successfully. but after I updated it to the latest rbox rom and retorted the device. It just gets stuck at the white Amazon logo. It won’t boot into recovery. Do you know how to fix it?